Quotes About Relationship

To be friends with God means to pray with simplicity, like children talking to their parents.

Think how our lives might be different if we became people with whom Christ could share the deep things of God.

We keep telling God our opinions; He keeps asking us about our hearts. We'll grow the most when we have the right conversations.

To be religious is to have one's attention fixed on God and on one's neighbour in relation to God.

It is not woman who claims the highest in man. It is a man's own religious soul that drives him on beyond women, to his supreme activity. For his highest, man is responsible to God alone.

Be rightly related to God, find your joy there, and out of you will flow rivers of living water.

We can never know God as it is our privilege to know Him by brief repetitions that are requests for personal favors, and nothing more.

I feel strongly that the God we meet in solitude is always the God who calls us to community.

People who don't know the true character of God - who don't believe He is merciful, gracious and slow to anger - can never have a close, personal, intimate relationship with Him.

The peace of God is first and foremost peace with God.

God does not stop at rescuing us; the purpose of that rescue is to enjoy fellowship with us.

Genuine Christian experience must always include an encounter with God Himself.

God keeps giving Himself as long as we bring that into which He can pour Himself. And when we stop bringing, He stops giving.

Jesus knows our world. He does not disdain us like the God of Aristotle. We can speak to Him and He answers us. Although He is a person like ourselves, He is God and transcends all things.

People who are close to God cultivate a personal intimacy with Him like a good gardener cultivates beautiful flowers.

God doesn't want you to go to church. He wants you to want to go to church.

Christians are always wanting God to give them something. They appear as beggars before the throne of the Almighty.

The gospel announces that God doesn't relate to us based on our feats for Jesus, but Jesus' feats for us.

To you your father should be as a god; One that composed your beauties, yea, and one To whom you are but as a form in wax, By him imprinted, and within his power To leave the figure or disfigure it.

If I'm going to be in the right relationship with God, I should treat the things he has made in the same way he treats them.

God himself does not give answers. He gives himself.

We obey God's Law, not to be loved but because we are loved in Christ.

God does nothing apart from prayer, but he does everything by it.

When we honestly ask God the 'why' question, He doesn't give us answers as much as He gives us Himself.